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IHC ELECTIONSSeattle's Irish Heritage Club has elected new Officers and Board Members to serve until May 2007. Officers elected are: President, David Jacobsen; Vice-President, Melissa Estelle; Secretary, Suzanne Green; Membership Secretary, Frank Gill; and Treasurer, John Keane. New Board members are: Jay Rathbun, Mary Dunne, Áine McDonald and Judy Donoghue, while Candace Dunne was re-elected. For information on the Irish Heritage Club, contact Melissa at (206) 229-8512 or visit www.irishclub.org. BLOOMSDAYThe Wild Geese Players present their staged reading of the Cyclops chapter from James Joyce's novel, Ulysses, on Bloomsday, June 16 at 8 PM at FX McRory's. Admission is free and all are welcome. Seattle’s Irish Book Club (call (206) 361-1713) will also be meeting at McRory’s that night to support the Bloomsday celebration. For information, visit www.wildgeeseseattle.org. IRISH RACESFree admission tickets are available for Irish Day at the Races at Emerald Downs in Auburn, on June 25 – first race at 2 PM. Families are welcome and tickets are not necessary for anyone 17 or under. E-mail your name, address (including zip), phone number, and the number of tickets needed, to CandaceD@irishclub.org. For racetrack information, directions, turf club reservations, etc., call (253) 288-7000 or visit www.emeralddowns.com. SAMMAMISH CONCERTJune 25, 7-9 PM, an evening of Irish music and dance with acoustic guitarist Dan Carollo (www.celtograss.com), Uilleann piper Eliot Grasso (www.eliotgrasso.com) and the Baile Glas Irish dancers (www.baileglas.com) at Sammamish Presbyterian Church, 22522 NE Inglewood Hill Road, Sammamish. For all the details, visit www.spconline.org. IRISH PICNICThe Irish Community Picnic will be held on July 23 from Noon to 6 PM at St. Edward State Park in Kenmore (see www.parks.wa.gov for directions). All are welcome, especially families. Admission is free, just bring your own food and drink. There will be hurling and football for young and old along with races, tug-o-war, etc. For more information, contact Candace at (425) 745-1263, or e-mail: CandaceD@irishclub.org. IRISH IMMIGRATIONIrish immigration support groups request continued calls to your Washington, DC, Senators and Representatives to urge support for comprehensive immigration reform. For information, call (425) 244-5147 or visit www.irishlobbyusa.org. YOUTH CLINICSThe Seattle Gaels are hosting a series of clinics on Gaelic football and hurling for young people 9-15 years old, starting on Sundays at 1 PM at West Magnolia Playfield, 34th and West Barrett. The aim is to introduce the games to young people, to teach some skills and to have fun. All equipment will be supplied but bring a football, sliothar or hurley if you have one. Parents are invited to participate. For information, contact Liam Boyle at (206) 542-3781 or coire48@yahoo.com. SEATTLE "GODOT"Dublin's Gate Theatre will visit Seattle’s Moore Theatre from November 8-12 for five performances of Samuel Beckett's acclaimed play, Waiting for Godot. The internationally acclaimed Gate Theatre Company has never before visited Seattle and Seattle is one of only four U.S. cities being visited this year by the Gate Theatre as part of the 2006 Beckett Centenary celebration marking the Nobel prizewinner’s birth in 1906. Dublin's Gate Theatre was established in 1928 by Hilton Edwards and Micheál MacLiammóir, and it was at the Gate that such luminaries as Orson Welles and James Mason began their acting careers. Since 1983, the artistic director of the Gate has been Michael Colgan, under whose guidance the artistic reputation of the theatre has continued to flourish at home and abroad. In 1991 the Gate became the first theatre in the world to present a full retrospective of the nineteen stage plays of Samuel Beckett, and the festival was repeated at New York's Lincoln Center. Various productions over the years include the full canon of Oscar Wilde's work; Three Sisters starring Sinead, Sorcha and Niamh Cusack; A Streetcar Named Desire starring Frances MacDormand; Molly Sweeney, directed by Brian Friel, which enjoyed an extensive run in New York; Crestfall, directed by Garry Hynes; and Juno and the Paycock, which played on Broadway as well as touring to Jerusalem and Edinburgh. The New York Times once said of this production when it played the New York theatre Festival, “If the Festival were the Olympics, Ireland would be the gold medalist.” Other than the location and dates, no other details on the Seattle performance have been announced. For information on the Gate Theatre, visit www.gate-theatre.ie. IRISH AUTHORIrish author and columnist Jude Collins will be in Seattle for a reading and book-signing on the evening of July 7. For 15 years, Collins was a weekly columnist at the Irish News in Belfast and just this year moved with his column to the new nationalist newspaper, Daily Ireland. He has also written and published Leave of Absence (2005), The Garden of Eden All Over Again (2002), Only Human and Other Stories (1998), Booing the Bishop (1995) and is a regular broadcaster on Radio 5 Live and Radio Ulster. Since 1979 Collins has been lecturing in Education at the University of Ulster at Jordanstown just outside Belfast. The details of his Seattle appearance have not yet been finalized but will be publicized on the Irish Heritage Club website at www.irishclub.org. For more information, call (425) 290-7839 or visit www.JudeCollins.net. IRISH CAMPSeattle's Tír na nÓg Day Camp is July 17-21, 9 AM to Noon daily, in Seattle Center House. Consisting of sessions focusing on Irish culture, ceilí dance, language and folklore and crafts, the camp is aimed at four to eight year olds. Contact (206) 675-9750 or celticroots_seattle@hotmail.com.
PRESIDENTIAL VISITSeveral people from Washington State traveled to Missoula and Butte, Montana, for the visit of President Mary McAleese to those cities some weeks ago. The President was there to launch an Irish Studies program at the University of Montana, Missoula, and also to visit Butte where she spoke about “the strong historical, cultural and immigrant links between Butte and Missoula and Ireland.” For the visit, hundreds of Irish tricolors could be seen flying from businesses and homes, especially from the tops of the 100-foot tall “Gallows Frames” that still mark the site of long-closed underground mines. The highlight of her visit to Butte was her address to about 2,000 people at Butte Central High School. The visit to Montana was a result of the tremendous reception the President received in Seattle last year, and the fact that so many people had traveled from Montana to meet her, something she mentioned several times during her speeches. While in Missoula, she met with the visitors from Seattle, and spoke about how much she enjoyed herself here last May. She also expressed her best wishes for Seattle’s Irish community. CONGRATULATIONSto Kathy and Leo Brennan whose son, Patrick Vincent Brennan, was born a few weeks ago at seven pounds seven ounces. Baby and mom are doing fine!
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